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"I’ I can, but there’s not much more I can do if she has sepsis I don’t have a proper clinic – "

So clattered loudly, and I wasn’t sure what it was, but I thought Boden hit so over

"What do you even know about clinics?" Boden asked "I thought you spent your ti a butcher shop back at the quarantine How could you do that to her? Didn’t you have some kind of oath where you first do no harued "My job was to draw blood and take care of her I was in charge ofher alive So that’s what I did It was the other doctors that cut her up, and… I never wanted this to happen"

"Just fix her, okay?" Boden sounded uncharacteristically desperate "Don’t let her die"

"I pro I can for her," Daniels assured hiain I was back into the blackness And at first that was nice because I couldn’t feel anything A nuht white la above ical masks, so all I could see was their eyes as they dissected me I tried toca I was freezing cold, strapped naked to a table

I was back in the quarantine I was in the operating rooot back there Orhad been a drea ainst the straps but I couldn’t get free I wanted to screanored me, the way always did when they operated They wouldn’t even lookthemselves, like I wasn’t even there

Then I felt the blade slice into , it nevermy stomach I could feel their knives all over, as they sliced up s,but I couldn’t see his face He wasn’t in the operating room with us, but I could hear hio!" I screa wasn’t in my mouth anymore

"Boden!" Daniels shouted "Boden, I need your help!"

"Please," I was begging with tears streaonna hurt you" That was Boden’s voice, cal and war to hurt yourself"

I blinked, unable to understand as happening, and the vision of the operating roo down each of an to chatter

"What’s going on?" I asked, and

"You’re clothes are soaking wet, so Daniels is taking them off," Boden said "He’ll put you in dry clothes so you don’t get pneurip, and I looked around Danielsa warm, dry sweater instead of the old dirty one I’d had on before He was in the process of taking offwet to my skin